(08-19-2014, 12:16 AM)Val Wrote: If you're looking to progress the story in a particular direction, perhaps you could ask the people on the forums if any of their characters would be interested in getting involved in the story. If the story itself just isn't panning out how you'd like it to, that's not necessarily a bad thing! It gives another way for your character to develop and character development is always super fun and entertaining!
I've certainly been caught in these instances before. I've felt like the character I was writing simply wasn't interesting or no one really wanted to get involved with that character because, perhaps, he could be very boring whereas I find him thoroughly entertaining. I've also had nights where absolutely no one would respond to posts I've made and followed that up with several people asking to RP with me at once and I had nowhere near the time required to devote to any of them due to other things.Â
As how to improve yourself, I'd say practice makes perfect! The only way to really get better at writing, from my personal perspective, is to do it more, do it often, and perhaps read other people's works to get new ideas and influences to develop your own "style" of writing. If you need some help better flourishing out ideas, feel free to drop them here or in a PM or something and I'd be more than happy to help you sort things out as much as I can! I'm not that great, but I'm certainly willing to offer you ideas and I'm sure there are many more in the community that are willing to do the same.
Thanks for the reply, it's greatly appreciated! I have made a profile on here mainly to make a wiki and as well to meet some people who rp in the forums as well. I can ask around the forums for help along with my stories, as for my character I want him to be involved in dark plots, I've tried to create some in the process. But me being a new person to rp I get nervous and jitters on trying to make one, I guess stage fright so to speak.
It's good to know I'm not the only person to have experienced the issue I'm facing right now, I've had some great times in the quicksand with rp and as you said I'd have some nights where nobody would reply to my posts, causing me to believe that my character wasn't interesting enough to some people, but I guess I can't please everyone. But thank you for the advice practice is true to getting better at all things, and I'll try to continue to create a storyline that could grab the interest of a few people. But first I need to settle on creating a wiki.
